Present-Day Problems of Christian Thought (Classic Reprint)

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Attempts have been made by a. Certain class of writ em to use the religion of Buddha as a means of weak ening the force of the claim which Jesus of Nazareth makes for Himself, and for the religion of which He is the founder and the head. The argument may be stated thus Jesus claims to be the Light of the World, and to have established a religion which is the absolute religion, before which all other religions must give way, because it is true and they are false; it is super naturally revealed - they are of purely natural origin. But the rellglon of Buddha presents so many resem blances and, parallels to the religion of Christ, - in its ethical code, in its spirit, and in the life of its founder, that the exclusive claims of the latter cannot be main tamed; and every open-minded man must see that both of these great religions are divine revelations, or neither is.

But it may be shown, in answer to this, that the alleged points of resemblance between the two reli gions, when closely scrutinized, are in many cases un real, in many others greatly exaggerated, and that the residuum of real likeness is totally insufficient to out weigh the contrasts, which are radical, fundamental.

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